Why Indian parents are looking at assisted living facilities for autistic adult children

Shashwat Ghosh, 25, wakes up astatine 6 americium each time and takes a shower. A regular is important to him. He runs marathons to support fit. Having worked astatine a hotel, helium runs a tiny baking concern wrong his Bengaluru flat complex, and has orders coming successful connected a WhatsApp radical called Baker connected the Block, created by his mother. He delivers the orders by evening. Every night, helium prepares the adjacent day’s paper with his mother’s help. Now connected a interruption from the business, helium is learning astir managing money, digitally, connected his parents Malvika and Swapan’s insistence. He finds intricate calculations challenging. Shashwat is autistic, his caput processes things differently.

When neurotypical radical conscionable Shashwat, his code mightiness dependable garbled; his insistence to beryllium physically adjacent portion interacting tin annoy immoderate people, particularly women. His parents clasp consciousness and sensitisation drives successful their flat analyzable to acquaint others with his condition. One day, a neighbour recovered him spinning astir connected his bicycle successful his apartment’s walking track, rapidly mumbling, with his manus bleeding. She rushed to alert his grandmother. Shashwat lives with his parents and grandmother, and finds it hard to pass to others astir bodily injury. “My hubby and I are ever disquieted astir what volition hap to him aft us,” says Malvika.